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The Pol Pot Regime : Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79, Paperback / softback Book

The Pol Pot Regime : Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This edition of Ben Kiernan’s definitive account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal.  “Deeply detailed, meticulously reported. . . . Important [and] valuable.” —Nation  "In this authoritative work, Ben Kiernan . . . explores the reasons why Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge revolution became a Cambodian nightmare." —Richard Gough, Times Higher Education Supplement  “Perhaps the most complete [account of Pol Pot’s terror] and the closest to Cambodian sources.” —Economist  “One of the most important contributions to the subject so far.” —R.

B. Smith, Asian Affairs  "Kiernan, the leading authority on modern Cambodia, meticulously examines Pol Pot's killing machine and clears up many misconceptions found in earlier studies. . . . An important book for students of genocide as well as scholars of Southeast Asia." —Library Journal  "[A] detailed and chilling history." —Asiaweek  "The most detailed history to date of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. . . . This book . . . will certainly be the benchmark against which all future research on the Khmer Rouge must be measured.

Very highly recommended." —Choice

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